Liz Bageant

Degree M.S. Agricultural Economics
Email Address erb32@cornell.edu

Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist working on a diverse range of development topics including index insurance, agriculture, fisheries, gender, and food and nutrition security in Africa and Asia. Liz also coordinates the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) project and the STAARS Fellowship Program.

She holds an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University. She also earned a B.S. in Development Sociology from Cornell, where an undergraduate project on food aid shipment policy pulled her unexpectedly into a career in applied economics. Liz has considerable field experience in Mozambique, Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya working with organizations including The Village Bicycle Project, CARE USA, Action Against Hunger, the African Development Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the International Livestock Research Institute and WorldFish.

Publications

  • Small-scale fishing households facing COVID-19: the case of Lake Victoria, Kenya. May 2021. Fiorella, KJ, Bageant, E, Mojica, L, Obuya, JA, Ochieng, J, Olela, P, Otuo, PW, Onyango, HO, Aura, C, Okronipa, H Fisheries Research: 237.
  • Fishers’ Response to Temperature Change Reveals the Importance of Integrating Human Behavior in Climate Change Analysis. April 2021. Fiorella, KJ, Bageant, E, Ordonez,K, Kim, M., Thilsted,S, & Barrett, CB.  Science Advances.
  • Empowerment and Nutrition in Niger: Insights from the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Grid. March 2021. Lentz, E, Bageant, E, & Narayanan, S. Food Security: 1-18
  • Food price volatility and household food security: Evidence from Nigeria. March 2021. Amolegbe, KB, Upton, JU, Bageant, E, Blom, S. Food Policy.
  • Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems. December 2020. Barrett, CB, Benton, T.G., Cooper,KA., Fanzo, J, Gandhi, R, Herrero, M, James, S, Kahn, M, Mason-D’Croz, D, Mathys, A, Nelson, RJ, Shen, J, Thornton, P, Bageant, E, Fan, S, Mude, AG, Sibanda, LM, Wood, S. Nature Sustainability, 3.
  • Analyzing Drivers of Fish Biomass and Biodiversity within Community Fish Refuges in Cambodia. 2019. Fiorella, KJ, Bageant, E, Kim, M, Sean, V, Try, V, MacDonell, H, Baran, E, Kura, Y, Brooks, A, Barrett, CB, Thilsted, S. 2019.  Ecology and Society, 24(3).
  • Implications of climate change for freshwater fisheries in Cambodia’s rice field fisheries: a longitudinal cohort study. Fiorella, KJ, Bageant, E, Ordonez, KA, Kim, M, Kura, Y, Thilsted, S, Barrett, CB. 2018. Lancet Planetary Health: Best Abstracts in Planetary Health2: S23. 
  • Are there Gender Differences in Demand for Index Based Livestock Insurance? 2017. Bageant, E and Barrett, CB. Journal of Development Studies, 53(6).
  • Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages and Child Health in the Presence of Nepal’s Civil Conflict  Bageant, E & Liu, Y.  March 2016, IFPRI Discussion Paper 01515.
  • Food Aid and Agricultural Cargo Preference.  Bageant, E, Barrett, CB, & Lentz, E.  Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy. Winter 2010, 32 (4): 624-641.
  • When ‘Buy American’ Harms America.  Christopher Barrett, Elizabeth Bageant and Erin Lentz.  The Washington Post.  December 3, 2010.

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